The Allentown Commercial and Industrial Development Authority will conduct hearings next Wednesday on three applications for about $1.4 million in tax- free financing for commercial ventures.

The hearings will be at 9 a.m. in the fifth-floor conference room at City Hall.

One involves the relocation of the Hajoca Corp. from Bethlehem to an 18,000-square-foot building to be constructed at 601-23 E. Highland St. The project will be financed with a loan from Industrial Valley Bank.

Philip Malozi, the applicant, will buy the land, construct the building, and lease it to Hajoca for its heating, plumbing, air conditioning engineering and wholesale supply business.

East Penn Place, a limited partnership with J.B. Riley as the general partner, will seek approval for $590,000 in financing through First National Bank for the acquisition of the property at 801 Hamilton Mall (northwest corner of 8th and Hamilton). The 30,200-square-foot building will be leased for retail and commercial office use.

The applicants for the third project are Garth D. Becker, Asa M. Hughes and Elmer L. Wagner, whowill ask for $300,000 in tax-exempt financing through Merchants Bank toward the acquisition and renovation of a 5,300-square-foot building at 2402 Sunshine Road. The building, which formerly housed the district office of the state Board of Probation and Parole, is located between Emmaus Avenue and Lehigh Street.

They plan to lease the building to Huth Engineers Inc., which plans to relocate its engineering business from 3340 Hamilton Blvd., Dorneyville.